Calla Editions: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Hardcover)

from jbarr5

The complete fairy tales of Charles Perrault Liked hearing of the stories and also about the author who wrote these in the 1670's. Some of them are quite scary and gruesome and they all come with a moral or two at the end. Had never heard of Bluebeard and Hop of My Thumb and Donkeyskin. About the...

from debnance

I actually read these while I was in France, but I reread a couple of them this week while my online group was discussing them. The online discussion reminded me how dark these stories were, full of violence and terror and unpredictability. The things we face in life, in other words. The things w...

from ftmckinstry

The stories are beautiful enough, but the Dore illustrations are breathtaking...

from mahallett

i didn't realize that perrault had written so few stories. anderson and grimm have huge volumes. it's interesting to see the differences in stories. an interesting history by betts. i chose this book because it was illustrated by dore. we saw his great summer exhibition at the nag this past summer.

from SamSattler

Charles Perrault, a minor government official in 17th century France, is best remembered today for the collection of fairy tales he published in 1697, just six years before his death. Perrault, however, was not the author of any of the tales collected in his book. Rather, he rewrote various folk ...